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  • The Combined Federal Campaign is back for its 50th season. Federal workers, postal employees and military personnel pledged more than $280 million in each of the last two years, according to the Office of Personnel…

    September 02, 2011
  • The mistreatment of federal employees is at an 18-year low, but that doesn\'t mean it can\'t get better. The Merit Systems Protection Board has some recommendations on how to improve.

    September 02, 2011
  • Today’s guests are: – Francis Rose, host, In Depth – Jason Miller, executive editor, Federal News Radio Jason’s stories #3 Debt deal means big cuts for agency budgets From Federal News Radio: It came down…

    September 02, 2011
  • The Defense Department is poised to once again miss its small business contracting goal, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says in a memo just issued to the department\'s leadership.

    September 02, 2011
  • In an interim rule, the agency listed four ways someone could be banned from the agency. SSA said threats against employees rose 43 percent from 2009 to 2010.

    September 02, 2011
  • Registered employee benefit consultant Ed Zurndorfer joined the Federal Drive with tips for choosing a good financial planner, especially for feds.

    September 02, 2011
  • Robyn Kehoe, the director of field operations at FEEA, joined the Federal Drive to discuss a program that pays for college for the children of parents lost in the 9/11 attacks.

    September 02, 2011
  • Federal cyber professionals are worried about vague language in proposed changes to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement or DFARS, according to a new surveyfrom CTOVision.com.

    September 02, 2011
  • The Homeland Security Department\'s Computer Emergency Readiness Team wants the public to beware of email scams and possible cyberattacks related to Hurricane Irene and the upcoming 9/11 anniversary.

    September 02, 2011
  • More than $2 billion as been paid — so far — to Vietnam veterans and their survivors who filed claims related to Agent Orange, after the VA last summer added to the list of diseases thought to be related to exposure.

    September 02, 2011
  • On today\'s Federal Drive: The Labor Department and contractors are butting heads over a new final rule, the Army makes progress on digitizing Arlington Cemetery records and the Combined Federal Campaign kicks off its 50th year.

    September 02, 2011
  • The Labor Department issued a final rule in the Federal Register Monday implementing a 2009 Executive Order requiring the employees of losing incumbent vendors to be offered the right-of-first-refusal for vacancies with the winning contractor. Industry associations have expressed dismay over the rules, which is broader than a similar one enacted in the 1990s.

    September 02, 2011
  • A year after a scandal upended the leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army is making swift progress toward creating a single database of all those interred at the site. Soldiers are using iPhones to record information and submit it to analysts to check the data against existing records.

    September 02, 2011
  • If you had to guess which group of federal workers are the smartest investors would you pick NIH researchers, Air Force and NASA rocket scientists, postal service letter carriers or CIA agents. If you are feeling lucky, take a guess, says Senior Correspondent Mike Causey.

    September 02, 2011